Hey all. I am linux (tbh crossplatform) developer. I was playing quake since its first release.

Since quakelive moved to steam and dropped mac and linux support I created a Linux tool to launch quakelive. If you still have not moved quakelive into steam (by this I mean your profile is still Id's one, not steam) this tool may improve your game experience.

It uses wine but without awesomium and other things that may reduce performance. So QLLauncher is simply quakelive.exe on linux. A lot of users noticed that using this tool on Linux increases performance significantly.

This tool allows you to spawn server, to join the server by given server id or ip address, to browse game servers with filter. For now the only thing that is still not implemented is chat and friendlist.

Wine is not an emulator and you can, at least in theory, get the same performance there as on Windows. I just hope that id won't think "it runs well enough for the 50 linux users, not worth investing money there". Or maybe they already think that anyway, who knows.

1. it works even for accounts linked with steam. I have mine linked with steam but works fine.

2. the server browser filters a bit lacking in the location field. I should be able to aggregate all european or all usa servers ..now I have to change the filter 3-4 times to see my nearest locations

3. somehow this thing has solved the major problem I have found with playing quake 3 and quake 3 engine derivative games on linux (ioquake3, quakelive when it did support linux). No more screen tearing. even though it does not have steady 250/125 fps. The single biggest reason I hated playing anything on linux is screen tearing with vertical sync on or off.

I am still working on filter and server browser. While I think it is usable for ME, of course for other people it still may not be so comfortable. Known issues of server browser are:

1. A bit lag at selecting server in server browser
2. Server filter is pretty difficult to realize because. I'd say it is implemented for 60-70%.

Don't forget to create issues - it makes me work faster :)

P.S. steady 250/125 fps still depends on system configuration, video driver settings and video card itself. I've tried to tune my video driver to reach maximum (less inputlag, less precaching, more fps, etc).
My settings are published in russian article about this tool so you may look it there.

Since 26 of october 2015 QuakeLive can be only accessed from Steam. That means that the qllauncher will not work anymore. Thanks everyone for your support and patience. Hope you enjoyed the game with the qllauncher." - fx

Can someone please explain what I'm supposed to do? When I run qllauncher I get "No QuakeLive found on your computer". If I "Download and Install" I don't know which directory to choose. (Choosing the default one does nothing). Help please?

Since 26 of october 2015 QuakeLive can be only accessed from Steam. That means that the qllauncher will not work anymore. Thanks everyone for your support and patience. Hope you enjoyed the game with the qllauncher." - fx